From your point of view, do you prefer mixing an acoustic or electronic drum kit? An acoustic kit might be more challenging and fun (mic choice, placement, mixing w/ gates, comps etc.), but an electronic kit removes stage noise and gives far more control over the overall mix. What do you think and have you had the opportunity to mix both?

What do you do for drum tuning, muffling, dampening for the best sound prior to recording?

• MoonGels
• Rings
• Duck tape
• Pillow

How do you listen to drums before micing. What do you listen for?

Just looking to get some opinions about which mics everyone prefers to use for recording drums overhead.

Hello,

For example: If I had an electronic drum kit (eg a DD502) and fancied expanding it, would I be able to, for example, plugin a Roland Ride cymbal (dual trigger) into the brain, and then send the Midi out to a computer and trigger samples with BFD2, utilising the dual trigger nature of the pad?

A couple days ago I received some drum replacement software [Drumagog 5] as a gift. It already came with samples in it, but none that I'm really into. Where can I get some awesome drum samples?

Signal Chain:

2 Overheads (Cheap Nady's) into preamps of cheap Behr*(&(*& mixer, mixed as the main signal.

1 Kick Mic (Cheap Nady) into dbx pre-amp (heavy compression) into line input of Behr(*&$ mixer, mixed to taste.

1 Room Mic (AT2020) into dbx pre-amp (moderate compression to taste) into line input of Behr@#@^% mixer, mixed to taste.

Hi All, I am an aspiring songwriter and would like to incorparate some drums within my songs. I am using Pro Tools SE with M-Audio Fast Track. Please give me an idea of something I can buy in the ball park of $100-$150 to start creating some drum beats.

Hey guys,

Im totally new to recording and at this point just want to find a simple program that has some already made drum loop presets that i can play threw my computer speakers.

Just something i can jam to with my guitar.

Any suggestions on a good program?

Thanks in advance.

Obviously most of this depends on the style, individual compressor, and using one's ears is always the best. If software, I can also load up some presets and explore. But. (dramatic music) I want to begin a discussion on why certain settings work or do not.

Lets pretend I only have two inputs into the DAW.
Seasound Soloist anyone?